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••Amor ducit patriae." — The love of my country leads me.' 



NEW YORK: 

SINCLAIR TOUSEY, 121 NASSAU STREET ; 
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SHOTS FROM THE MONITOR; 



OR, 



FACTS FOR THE TIMES. 

LEO GRENARD. 



If thou hast strength, 'twas Heaven that strength hestowed 
For know, vain man, that valor is from God." — Young. 



NEW YORK: 

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CHAPTER I. 

THE MAN FOR THE TIMES. 

He fills his space with deeds, and not with lingering years. . 

Ovid. 

"We can but perceive that in order to restore peace 
and prosperity; to disarm all future attempts at rebel- 
lion ; to crush out the hydra-headed monster, Slavery ! 
and bless our land with universal freedom ; to rear 
philanthropic institutions which may prove as stumbling 
blocks in the way of Foreign Intervention ; — in fine, to 
elevate this nation to the true position she is destined 
to occupy among the nations of the earth, as an example 
of true dignity, heroism, Christian philanthropy, justice, 
and truth, she must have for her Executive a man 
whose heart is filled with love for his country and 
humanity; a man possessed of great firmness of charac- 
ter, indomitable will and untiring energy ; a man who 
cannot be swerved by public opinion, for the sake of 
popularity ; a man who looks to the interest and welfare 



4 THE MAN FOR THE TIMES. 

of the nation, rather than the interest of his own pocket. 
"We claim not the man who sighs after earthly pomp and 
courtly homage ; who would barter his country's birtiiright 
for gold ; rob her of tlie sacredness of virtue by riveting 
the chains of Slavery more closely around her ; rearing 
the slave-j)en upon Freedom's soil, overshadowed by the 
upas, Secession ; making Slavery the chief corner-stone 
of the oligarchy of national glory! Not the man who 
can fold himself calmly in the hideous embrace of 
Treason, acd pour out affections, wdiich claim no 
domestic tie, upon the polluted form of Secession ! l^ot 
a Robespierre, who cunningly yet narrowly escapes 
through the " Underground Railroad " of Democracy 
(known as " Copperhead ") the clenching jaws of the 
guillotine, while it rolls off the heads of his innocent 
victims! Not him who, unable to withstand the consum- 
ing tires of destruction which he has enkindled, shrinks 
silently into the slough of neutrality — sells his own soul 
to the Son of Perdition — throws his mantle of iniquity 
upon a bloodthirsty Nero, who shakes its infections 
dust upon the " mudsills of society," yet bids them 
breathe not the malaria upon his " heaven-created 
chattels !" Not the man who " hopes against hope " to 
build up a Southern aristocracy, whose foundation will 
be human bondage and degradation of soul ! Not the 
man who can gloat over the blood of the slain, listen to 
the walls of the dying and the moans of the widow and 
fatherless, caused by his accursed treachery and imbe- 
cility, without feeling the agonizing throes of a withering 
and an undying remorse ! We submitted four years to 
the tyranny of such a human t7ionster / to the ignominy 



THE MAN FOR THE TIMES. O 

and disgrace this imposition upon humanity has brought 
upon us; while he, dwelling in security, in single blessed- 
ness, yet lives to fatlier a numerous progeny of the hiss- 
ing, crawling, reptile race, whose only record in the 
future will be treason, secession, ignominy, and sliame ! 
Thanks to the Lord of the just, our national halls are 
no longer desecrated by the cloven foot of this mons- 
trosity in human shape! May the God of vengeance 
have mercy upon his unpardoned soul ! 

* • * * •;{■ % 

At the helm of state stands the good and honest man 
who, aided by the noble heroism and philanthropy of his 
people, has saved the Union, though rent, from being 
sundered, and has driven this infamous Kebellion 
into extremities in which it may not hope to escape ex- 
tinction, and the utter extermination of all its diabolical 
schemes to overthrow the Government, divide the Union, 
and curse our land with a monarchical despotism, whose 
baseness would shock and distract the universe ! Heaven 
bless this "honest" man, who has sought, in all he lias 
done^ the best interest of his country. 

If he has sometimes seemed " too slow," the nation, 
v,ath her great charitable heart, and magnanimous 
spirit, has possessed the forbearance and the patience to 
" wait." If he possessed not the foresight to see and 
comprehend the magnitude of this mighty Rebellion, he 
is indeed blameless for the immense sacrifice of life 
which it has cost, and the procrastination which has at 
times " stolen the march upon our armies," while the 
enemy has been preparing to shell our batteries and 
trample upon Freedom's soil. 



6 THE MAN FOR THE TIMES 

If he has suffered men of inexpedience to command ; 
our army to go into winter quarters, to wait ! wait ! wait ! 
giving the foe abundant time to strengthen his forts, 
increase his army, and he ready to start, like two boys 
about to begin a foot-race, upon even chances of victory ; 
if he has suffered some of our best and most efficient 
officers to be removed, or others less worthy to be 
placed over them, in order to " prevent jealousies, and 
keep peace in the family," it has been with the view to 
better the condition of things and to save the army from 
strife and discord. If it was his province to counter- 
mand the first Proclamation of Emancipation, to wliicli 
even Democracy then responded a hearty Amen ! 
[when had it at once been made universal the whole world 
would have huzzahed " Long live America "] for not 
only our own land but all Europe had long been watching 
eagerly for the " Policy " that was to save the country 
from destruction and ruin, and crush out every vestige 
of an unholy Eebellion ; — if he could not foresee that 
to countermand such a policy would produce disquiet, 
lukewarmness, a milk-and-water policy pregnant with 
evils, which would breed rapidly those odious reptiles 
whose poisonous fangs would ever be aimed at the heart 
of the Union and the heel of the Nation ; — if he could not 
perceive that a volcanic fire emanating from the Nation's 
life-pulse was beginning to throb and to throw off the 
exuviae of public opinion, that in the great uprising 
he would be compelled to open his vision to the fact 
that to weaken the llebellion he must demolish the 
" peculiar institution," — if, we say, he did not foresee that 
he would be compelled to adopt the policy which he 



THE MAN FOR THE TIMES. 7 

tlien refused to recoganize in order to save the Nation 
and preserve the Union, he is fully justified in his course, 
tliough it fail not to prolong the war, and wring from 
our heart's loved ones, drop by drop of human gore. We 
firmly believe that whatever he did in regard to Slavery 
was done solely with the view to save the Union and to 
restore peace and happiness to the bosom of the nation. 

Yet why was not emancipation his policy, when the 
first cannonade, pealing over Sumter — sounding the 
death-knell to slavery — awakened the spirit of patriot- 
ism within the breast of mankind, causing millions of 
hearts to breathe the higher and holier inspirations of 
freedom in one grand anthem, whose musical echoes, 
harmonizing the world, will cease only in the eternity 
of God, whose sublime truths will ally humanity more 
firmly \vith the divinity of the future, wdien man shall 
indeed become " little lower than the angels crowned 
Avith glory and honor," — acknowledging that true " valor 
is from God," 

Why did not the God-like voice of freedom, thundering 
from the skies " Emancipation," electrifying the world 
with the most wonderful and sublime sympathy which 
earth had felt since the rocks and the mountains were 
cleft asunder at the "bursting of the bonds of clay," by 
that holy One who gave to rebellious and erring men 
pardon and redemption, enkindle within his soul the 
unquenchable longings for freedom and righteousness; 
for holiness and truth ? 

Had he not listened long enough to the stern war cry 
" Onward to Kichraond !" and to the thrilling appeal, 
" Reinforce 1" to fear the dangers of delay ? 



8 THE MAN FOR THE TIMES. 

O, could not the wails of the widow and orphan 
ascending on high in agonizing death throes, cause him 
to take one step nearer heaven by crushing out the 
monster Slavery ? 

Had not the blood of heroes slain in the conflict 
nerved liiin with sufficient strength to stand aloof 
from the contaminating influence of that public opinion, 
whose prestige was the blackness of despair, and to 
whoso presence clings the withering curse of remorse ; 
and to look full into the light of heaven, until by the 
breath of his soul and the brightness of his example 
should issue forth that fire of the nation's indignation 
against slavery which would burn the stubble of seces- 
sion, utterly consume the vitals of the arch-fiend 
Treason, and banish rebellion from the earth? 

Why, then, was bis heart hardened against all impor- 
tunities until the Christian Delegation, the ministry ot 
his own State, were moved by Almighty God to utter a 
rebuke, to force themselves upon him, and to plead in 
the name of Him whom they worshipped and served, for 
the sundering of the yoke of bondage and the deliver- 
ance of the bondman from oppression, — from the 
most accursed and. servile despotism which has ever cor- 
rupted the body politic of a nation, and sent its thous- 
ands to dens of degradation, vice, misery, want and woe ? 

Is it not distinctly perceptible that the hand of God 
was to be manifested in quelling this Rebellion ? Was not 
the heart of the ruler of this people to be hardened, as 
was the heart of Pharaoh against the children of Israel, 
until they had humbled themselves before God — that 
they might struggle more earnestly to perpetuate prin- 



THE MAN FOR THE TIMES, iJ 

ciples and not slavery. Battling with difficulties the 
most arduous and perplexing, contending with a domes- 
tic foe the most formidable and determined, he has in- 
deed sliown an honest desire to act well the noblest part 
according to the hest of his ahilities. 

" He has done well," is echoing from the overflowing 
fountain of gratitude welling up from the nation's heart; 
and we should endeavor to be satisfied with " doing 
well," for did he not truly " wait and see the salvation of 
the Lord ?" 

His election as President " was one grand step — at that 
time leading us from the pro-slavery darkness toward 
the light of freedom. Now is the time, and this the favor- 
able hour — for us to take one more step toward a higher, 
truer standard of freedom and light ! We must not go 
backward or stand still ; — God is moving in events. We 
must move forward under a more earnest and radical 
leader. — God help us." 

If, now, as the signs of the times seem to indicate, the 
mission of this servant of God, as the ruler of this peo- 
ple, is being ended ; — and if, in the wise providence of 
God, he shall be set aside, that another may give pre- 
eminence of worth to the place which he occupies, 
while God rides upon the whirlwind and directs the 
storm," until the " bow of promise" shall again span the 
horizon, we can only respond "Amen! not our will — but, 
our Heavenly Father, ' Tliy will be done,' " 

***■»* -sf -se- 

" God said. Let there be light, and there was light." 
As a Nation, struggling for the maintenance of those 
humane and inalienable rights bequeathed to us through 



10 THE M4N FOR THE TIMES. 

the blood of oiu* fore-fatliers, by the All-wise, we have 
" done well," but the great popular heart is beginning 
to throb against languor of purpose, and to long with an 
intensity which cannot remain smothered to " do bet- 
ter." 

When the time arrives for the great national heart to 
throw off the incubus of procrastination, the man with 
the " policy and purpose " will be appreciated, and tlie 
Nation will be ready for him. Then will follow the 
recompense for all the injustice shown him, for 
the want of knowledge of his true character, and of 
appreciation of his mighty soul and his eternal prin- 
ciples. It was not tlie purpose of God that the flashing 
bayonet of this bloodthirsty Rebellion should pierce his 
great heart, or desecrate the clayey tabernacle which 
contains the immortal spirit which shall live for ever in 
the heart of the JSTation, when all that is earthly of the 
man shall have passed away. It was not the design of 
Providence that the Rebel foe should trample upon the 
blood of him whose whole life, were it given to the 
world, would be embodied in the one simple sentence. 
Freedom, honor, justice, truth, liumanity, a!id magnan- 
imity of purpose. It is the Providence of God that 
this man should " wait," that he should serve a nobler 
end. 

Every great national change is heralded. As the 
good Apostle John went before to prepare the way of 
the footsteps of Him who was to redeem the human 
race from sin and perdition, so, likewise, is our good and 
honest President but the herald of a greater who shall 
come in God's OM"n good time, whenever the Nation is 



THE MAN FOR THE TIMES. 11 

prepared to receive him. He will come clotlied in tlic 
dignity of a hero, and in the humility of a child, with 
a soul of inborn love for his country which can never 
perish, holding within the palm of his hand the good 
seed he is destined to sow, which no political wind shall 
scatter ere it has taken deep root in human soil, from 
which a luxurious harvest of good works will spring 
forth to replenish mankind with the blessings of lieaven. 
When he is the nominee of the people, the voice of hu- 
manity will go up to God in faith in his behalf; for he 
is the friend of freedom and of religion, and he will be 
elected by the largest majority ever given to a Presi- 
dent. Then let his oppressors remain silent ! Their 
writhing tongues will fall powerless, for he will estab- 
lish the national peace and happiness npon a perma- 
nent basis, npon a foundation so secure that neither tem- 
pests of Secession nor tornadoes of Rebellion can shake 
it, for it will be founded upon the Rock of Fi-eedom. 
Humanity will be the corner-stone, and Religion the 
basis, of the " temple made without hands " in the heart 
of the Nation, to endure for ever and for ever! 



CHAPTER II. 

PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 
"Truth is stranger tlian fiction." 

How thrills and throbs the heart with joy or woe at 
the sound of these momentous words — momentous be- 
cause upon the success of the one, and the downfall of 
the other, hangs the destiny of this great American na- 
tion. 

Shall the patriot, Freedom, triumph, and the traitor 
Rebellion, be defeated — aye, crushed and silenced for- 
ever? Your answer will go down to the future beam- 
ing in the light of justice and truth, or burning in the 
blackness of treason and remorse ! Pause ! consider 
well ere you decide. Every act you shall put forth in 
this great cause of God and humanity will be recorded 
in the Lamb's book of life, He who seeth in secret 
"will reward thee openly. 

This dark and terrible rebellion is waged, not against 
party or politics ; against individuals or a nation ; but it 
is waged against principles as eternal as the heavens — - 
against nations struggling for freedom, and groaning be- 
neath the iron yoke of despotism. He who fails to ac 
knowledge this truth will carry with him to the bar of 



PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 13 

Jeliovali the brand of ignominy. The Lord of right- 
eousness judges us according to the motives of the heart, 
and to Hi in every secret thouglit and wish is made 
known. Tlien awake, O ye who are slow of heart and 
dull of understanding ; the Almighty will no longer be 
put off, for he lias stirred up this nation to purification 
and to honor. Are you tlien on the Lord's side ? or 
will you doom yourselves to woe and misery ? Tiicsjo are 
serious questions which you cannot avoid answering 
either in word or in deed. Think not that you can sin in 
silence that your heart can become a whitedsepulcher — 
that you can look calmly on in tlio great struggle with 
this gigantic rebellion, and say within your soul, I wash 
my hands of this monster's blood — not one drop shall 
stain my garments. 

Woe, woe to thee, sinful man ! Is thy mortal clay 
— the dust which perishetli — more precious in thy sight 
than the immortal, which endureth through countless 
ages? Wilt thou sell thy soul for a goblet of bubbling 
praise, or thy birthright to heaven for a grain of filtliy 
lucre ? 

Art thou fearful of the voice of freedom which is 
sounding throughout the land ? Then will the rocks 
and the mountains cry out. Hide, oh liide tis from the 
presence of this monster of selfishness ! — this demon of 
evil ! 

Again we repeat : This war is one of principles, 
whether man shall acknowledge the fact or not. It is 
God's war against the vile institution of Beelzebub. 
Nor will the rebellion cease, and the white dove of 
peace return to our shores until the kingdom of slavery 
is utterly overthrown ! — not until it is torn up root and 



14 PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 

brancli, and cast to tlie four winds of lieaven. Accursed 
is lie who would raise the hand to withstay the destruc- 
tion of this abominable evil. His name shall go down 
to the future cursed with the blackness of treason and 
rebellion ! — treason against humanit}'-, and rebellion 
against God. Long, long have the sins of the nation 
cried out against us ! Until we thoroughly repent and 
set the bondman free, tlie Lord will bIiow mercy 
unto us only as we show mercy to the captives of His 
flock. 

God works in a mysterious way. He will perfect 
the seed which he has sown ere the harvest is over ; 
and if his reapers are not all in tlie field, it is because 
He has reserved some to garner up the wdieat and re- 
store the land to its former fertility. Remember that 
his providence overrules the destiny of this nation. 

Many of our noble patriots have gone forth to water 
the soil of freedom with their precious blood; but the 
voice of heroism will not perish in their graves, for it 
lives in the record of all their acts, and in the golden 
opinions they have left to the future. Posterity will 
shed tears of gratitude above their green mounds, and 
generations to come will rise up and call them blessed ; 
for they are the true peace-makers of the earth. In 
Heaven they will reap their rich and glorious reward. 



Solemnly and with measured step we trace the lines 
of the living heroes — the honored patriots — honored of 
God, though forgotten of man. All along they stand, 
here courted, there discarded — here flattered, there 
condemned. .What matters it to us whether they are 



PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 15 

fettered or free ? We hear not the prajers of the na- 
tion ascendhig in their behalf, pleading earnestly for the 
return of that justice which will be ■welcomed to our 
land when right shall triumph and oppression be cast 
down. 

What matters it, after they have fought and bled in 
our country's cause, that the voice of bitter calumny 
should arise against them, withering their brightest 
hopes, and' blighting their noblest aspirations. The 
crown can ne'er be won without the plat of thorns. 

They who have given their noblest energies to their 
country's cause, though they are martyred upon the 
shrine of ambition — suffering only misfortunes here, yet 
shall they reign immortal, for there awaiteth them a 
glorious hereafter, where they will be judged, accord- 
ing to the motives of the heart, by the Infinite and 
Holy One, who knows no prejudice or favoritism to- 
ward any wortliy creature of His guardian care. 

He who, whether living or dead, is offered up a 
worthy sacrifice on liis country's altar, becomes god- 
like in his being. His deeds will be as stepping-stones 
of the nation to the temple of enduring peace. His name 
will become one of the brightest jewels in the diadem on 
high. 

What behooves it to us that the " liberator " came 
with a soul filled with the purest patriotism and benev- 
olence toward his country and humanity, which we — 
blind to such magnanimity — mistook for self-love and 
extravagance ; that he sacrificed comfort and pleasure, 
for perils and arduous struggles, where only the most 



16 PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 

indomitable courage could sustain life, to add to our 
storehouse of science and art. 

What matters it that after his energetic and soul- 
stirring labors, crowned with success, and adding 
to our borders new and untold wealth, with its sunnj 
skies and its golden valleys of fertility, that he was un- 
justly accused of crimes of which he was innocent, and 
by liis own noble and masterly defense obliterated 
every vestige of evidence— ^/rt/^c? as treason ! — against 
himself, leaving his fame unsullied, and his soul untar- 
nished. 

What matters it that he — the Garibaldi of America — • 
gave us a policy which his advanced mind foresaw 
would be the only true one to crush out this ferocious 
rebellion, and which proved unacceptable then to our 
limited and trammeled ideas of freedom? ]^ot the less 
welcome shines the sun of Emacipation now upon the 
poor captive, that its radiance, instead of illumining 
the world, was for a time dimmed by clouds of dis- 
trust. 

What matters it that the great cry against the gun- 
boats was not hushed until they becatne a necessity to 
the Government ? They have not proved less serviceable 
in putting down the rebellion. 

And lastly, what matters it to us that he who is pre- 
eminently qualified to command an army, or to govern 
a nation, should be set aside to xoait God's time to 
■ serve that country, in her hour of peril, whom he loves 
more than life — that life which he would not dishonor 
to save ? 

After long years of untiring energy and unflinching 



PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 17 

hardships it is well thaf burdens should be lessened 
that lie may increace the vitality which will be called 
into action when the All-Merciful shall send him forth 
to bind up the wounds of the nation, restore the equi- 
librium of her virtue, and plant the banners of her love 
upon the rock of moral rectitude and Christian per- 
petuity. 

Then will the people learn the magnanimity of his 
patience, his noble forbearance, and his heaven-born 
forgiveness for the wrongs which he has suffered. 

Whom the Lord loveth ho chasteneth. Yerily the 
godlike of earth are as the godlike in heaven. 

****** ^f 

How mysterious is the wisdom of Jehovah. How in- 
scrutable are the ways of His providence. 

He who suffered Joseph to be persecuted, and sold 
into bondage by his brethren, was able to raise him up 
to humble that people, to save them from perishing, and 
\o rule over them. 

The same God — unchangeable in His purposes — who 
made Esther an instrument in His hands to save His 
chosen people from destruction, is able to save this 
nation from being sold into slavery. And He will 
dispossess the Haman of this J^ation — the favorite of the 
Executive — whose heart, in its evil machinations hath 
waxed wroth against the men whom this people 
delighteth to honor. "With his co-workers in iniquity, 
this Haman hath sought every pretext to vilify the fair 
names of those who bow not, neither do honor to 
liimj and to those whose principles were of darkness, 
and out of whose hearts issueth every vile deceit, and 



18 - PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 

every secret that maketli a lie, and worketh abomination 
in the siujht of the Lord. This Haman, who sits in high 
places is diffusing liis contaminating influence through- 
out the land, causing many to query, " Can the Chief 
Magistrate press to his bosom and cherish this 'green- 
eyed ' monster, and sill be ' honest ?' Or, is that wliich 
we accounted 'honesty' mere shrewdness? — made to 
subserve in carying out political schemes, in the coming 
campaign." 

The people ask — the people would have this problem 
solved. 

Does the Chief Magistrate realize that there is an 
under current, deep and fathomless, which is sweeping 
silently on, on — and will Avash away the quick-sands of 
earthly ambition, and cleanse the land of the off-scour- 
ings of political despotism ; leaving only the pure and 
unceasing fountain of Truth, which the nation, thirsting 
for freedom, may freely quaff and become immortal. 

Does he know that the Searcher of hearts will not 
long suffer this Haman to usurp power, working evil, 
filled will all manner of jealousies towards him whom 
the people love — the choice of the people — the approved 
of God. 

Let him beware lest the vengeance of a just God 
shall visit him in the silent watches of the night and 
cause him to ask, " How liave I sinned against Thee, O 
Lord, and against thy people, that I no longer find favor 
in the eyes of this Nation, but am cast out and utterly 
overthrown." Let Haman beware lest the gallows he 
would erect for another shall fit too closely his own 



PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 19 

neck, and around his own malignant form the cloak of 
ignominy be thrown. 

Have those in high places no fear of the wrath of 
Almighty God? Do they flatter themselves they can 
go on forever in their wickedness nnrebuked ? Do they 
not fear the jnst and awful retribution of a frowning 
Providence Avho cannot be deceived, who will uproot 
and overturn the dark and loathsome despotic cor- 
ruption which hides it^ guilty head underneath the 
fledgeless wings of base calunmy ? Do they not fear 
the just indignation of a people upon whom the insult 
of intriguing politicians has been heaped until it has be- 
come unbearable — politicians whose only aim is to 
build up themselves on the down-trodden and the op- 
pressed ? 

But let us turn our attention to the providence of God, 
asserted through his servant Moses, whom He raised up 
to lead the Children of Israel to the promised land. And 
God caused the wicked to be overwhelned, and utterly 
swallowed up. 

Likewise in our day will the Lord God call suddenly 
forth one who will honor God and serve His people who 
shall lead this. His chosen people, from out the bondage 
of slavery; and God will go before as a pillar of light, 
and the waters of Freedom will be rolled up on either 
side. Though Pharaoh may follow with his pro-slav- 
ery charioteers, determined to conquer, 3'et the Lord 
will deepen the dark waters round about him and he will 
roll back the overwhelming tide upon him and upon all 
his host of evil doers and [they shall be swallowed up 
and slavery shall be known no more forever 1 



20 PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 

" * * * * * * 

Vengeance is mine, saitli the Lord of Hosts. 'Tiswell, 
'tis well, for it belongeth not to thy people, O Lord, 
tliey who are slow to anger, and strong to forgive. 
Their fame has spread abroad through all the land, as 
the most munificent in peace, and the most magnanim- 
ous in war. ISTever poured forth such treasures of blood 
and tears from the bosom of Patriotism, and never es- 
caped so many traitors unhanged ! They may crawl in 
secret — known only by the rattle and. the hiss — with 
aims of death at every footstep of freedom's pace, yet 
we do not like to disturb thein, lest the party return 
upon us its venom and malignity. They may prowl 
around, like the midnight assassin, seeking the life of 
the Union — determined to sink the old ship, the Con- 
stitution, and still we cry, "Let them alone ! they can do 
us no harm !" They may come out boldly, denouncing 
the best Government the light of heaven ever shone 
upon — reviling the Union ai>d the Constitution (divest- 
ed of its abiiorred slave-code) with all the vengeance 
which the depraved soul can exercise against reason ; 
causing the shedding of innocent blood, by dividing 
hearts and prolonging strife — yet, instead of making 
them grand examples to the future, by suspending them 
betwixt the heavens and earth, undeniable witnesses of 
the nation's scorn, in our great and awful lenity we 
only hanish them across Mason and Dixon's line, teach- 
ing them that even the arch-traitor holds them in con- 
tempt, and will have no fellowship with them — leaving 
tliem to run out of the Confederacy into Canada, or 



PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 21 

some less ■welcome retreat, to aTvait the tribunal of 
state, honored or dishonored, and politically dead, dead ! 

Or amid the most disgraceful riots which have ever 
cursed the earth, thej may come boldly forward and 
address the rioters — in language not to be mistaken — 
as my " friends !" And yet — and yet our merciful 
Government cries, suppress them ! but do not liarm them ! 
and the people respond, Shall the blood of innocence 
wash their sins away, and cleanse the stains they fling 
upon our banner's folds? 

Magnanimous spirit thou, America! Shades of the 
mighty departed — spirit of Washington and Jackson ! 
come forth to behold yourselves crest-fallen in the mag- 
nitude of this merciful and justice-loving age. 

Whence cometli the example of such forbearance — 
snch merciful justice, if this be justice? Came it from 
heaven ? from Him who placed an impassable gulf 
between Dives and Lazarus? 

Who cast his offenders iuto outer darkness, where 
there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth? 
Who severs the just from the unjust, nor leaves one sin- 
ner upon the threshold of heaven to corrupt and drag 
down His saints to guilt and perdition ! 

Is not this justice? Aye, the wisdom and justice of 
the Kuler of the Universe, which no man can 
gainsay. 

Which would be the greater sin, dealing death to 
traitors within our midst, or the ruthless slaying of 
thousands, and the breaking of innocent hearts, caused 
not hy what 10 e have done^ but by neglect of a vigor- 
ous prosecution of the war and a triumphant crushing 
out of traitors. Well may the Soutli cherish some hope 



22 PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS. 

of success so long as the North does not conquer her 
own traitors at home, but permits them to run at large 
holding the red tor^h of ti-eason to every magazine of 
state, which may become ignited producing devastation 
and ruin. Well may she dream of golden bowers and 
licentious luxury brought by the sinewy hands of 
Ethiopia's sons and daughters — purchased at the price 
of virtue, by human gore, so long as we remain uncon- 
scious of the strength of the foe with whom we are con- 
tending. "Well may she have some slight grounds of 
hope to cut the Gordiau knot which binds her irrevoca- 
bly to the Union when the North is lavishing her 
wealth and her p?'ecious time in fawning upon the repre- 
sentatives of foreign despots, while she is uniting her 
men, concentrating her armies, and preparing for a 
vigoi'ous attack, or a strengthened defense. Still our 
greatest sins in this holy war are sins of omission. 
Permit us to repeat : We are slow to anger, but strong 
to forgive.' 

The tocsin is sounding, and the great day of the 
nation will shortly be at hand. AVith our hearts and 
our minds united in strength in our cause most just M'O 
cannot fail to conquer. Sweet freedom will reign over 
dark treason slain ! We will then thank God that He 
led us on to victory — that he gave us a Garibaldi to 
sunder the chains of slavery, and set the captive free to 
seek the salvation of his own soul in the light of that 
Divine Truth who knows no respecter of persons, and 
deals justice unto all — who will lead those who listen to 
His voice, and walk in His footstejDS, unto the blissful 
shores of life everlasting. 



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FA.CTS FOR THE TIM:ES. 



NUMBER 1. 
Chapter I.— The Man for the Times. II.— Patriots and Traitor.s. 



NUMBER 2. 
Chapteh III.— Our National Policy. 



NUMBER 3. 

Chaptek IV.— ■Emancipation. V.— Foreign Intervention. 



NUMBER 4. 
Chapter VI.— The Union, One and Inseparable. 



NUiyiBER 5. 
Chapter VII.— Politics and Power. VIII.— The Pulpit and the Press. 



NUMBER 6. 
Chapter IX.— The Crisis of Nations. X.— The North and the South. 



NUMBER 7. 
Chapter XL— War the Educator of Nations. 
XII. — The Future of Our Country. 



NUMBER 8. 
Chapter XIII.— Biblical View of the War. 



NUMBER 9. 
Chapter XIV.— Triumph of Principles. XV.—AoauTit Courier. J 












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